Dorothy Whipple

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Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) was an author born in 1893 to the large family of an architect in Blackburn, England. For three years she worked as secretary to Henry Whipple—an educational administrator and widower twenty-four years her senior—whom she married in 1917. They spent most of their lives in Nottingham, where she wrote Young Anne (1927), the first of many successful novels—including High Wages (1930), and Greenbanks (1932). Most of her books became Book Society Choices or Recommendations, and two of them, They Were Sisters (1943) and They Knew Mr Knight (1934), were adapted into films. Her final novel was Someone at a Distance, published in 1953. Returning to Blackburn in her later years, Dorothy Whipple died in 1966.